Love, Marriage & Money: Understanding and Achieving Financial Compatibility Before-And-After-You Say "I Do"

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Summary: A Boot Camp Guide for Couples
Review: A rewarding marriage is based on mutual goals, day-to-day communication, and a connection with each other. Love, Marriage & Money is a "boot camp" guide for couples to treat each other as equals in all decision making scenarios be it financial or otherwise.

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Summary: Good Financial Information, Poor on Marriage
Review: Everything in the book is plain common sense. May be helpfull for people who are single and are considering marriage. Help those who haven't thought about the finance part of their relationsip. But established couples should have figured everything in the book already.

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Summary: Couples' RX for Financial Security
Review: I can't think of a better gift for young people about to wed. In simple, everyday terms, the book lays out a host of investment methods and strategies that have worked for the married co-authors whose syndicated column I read religiously. Especially light and interesting are the authors' cute asides about their own backgrounds, differences when it comes to handling money and how they resolve those differences. Included is a glossary of reference sources I find myself referring to from time to time. So far, my wife and I have given this book to two newlywed couples.

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Summary: Good Financial Information, Poor on Marriage
Review: It is clear that the authors are financial planners and have little or no professional understanding of intimate relationships. Their financial advise is very, very sound and valuable. The points they make about money and cost of weddings are important for couple preparing to wed to know. However... The advise on conflict management and couple problem solving leave much to be desired. Research indicates that MONEY is the number of issue of conflict in couples. The author's advise is summerized in a box--"Don't argue about money." That is like asking a week old baby,not to cry. Conflict is going to happen. What counts is how you handle it so that it does not undermind the love and commitment that you have for one another. Read it for the advise on money--not intimate relationships.

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Summary: Bliss
Review: Nobody said marriage or relationships would always be heaven on earth. Finally, though, the authors have given us a decent set of navigational tools for dealing with money and relationships. There is no other book like this on the market.

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Summary: Couples' RX for Financial Security
Review: The best financial advice the authors could give you is to save your money and don't buy this book. Everything they write about is common sense. Each chapter is a redundant explanation of the fact that you should communicate with each other about money and financial issues. If you've bought this book, or are considering it you already know that. If you are looking for a book to give you some serious guidelines about how to handle your finances as a couple, this is not it.

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Summary: Save your money
Review: The best financial advice the authors could give you is to save your money and don't buy this book. Everything they write about is common sense. Each chapter is a redundant explanation of the fact that you should communicate with each other about money and financial issues. If you've bought this book, or are considering it you already know that. If you are looking for a book to give you some serious guidelines about how to handle your finances as a couple, this is not it.